In my previous thread I was asking about a radiator leak. The shop found the something hit it and cracked it causing it to leak. They also said my head gasket is blown. However it wasn't blown before this? The crack in the radiator shouldn't cause a blown gasket? I started it once without coolant to back it up for the tow truck and that was all. Immediately shut it off. How could this happen?

 

They SAID your head gasket is blown.....what's the indication? Oil in coolant/ coolant in oil....what? Did you/they do a pressure test of the system? When you backed it up to the tow truck, was the engine hot/cold?

Just a few questions I had to ask.

If you were driving your car and the radiator cracked, pumped all the water out of the system, and you continued to drive it, yes you would have some issues. As in head gasket/engine seize and other catastrophic events. All which are not good.

 

He said when I called that its was pumping out the exhaust lots of smoke, barely holding any coolant in it. No other words on oil in coolant or vice versa. Going there now to see it. The engine was dead cold when I started it in the morning for the tow truck

And no, It was running in the driveway while I cleaned the interior. Saw the huge puddle and shut it off and lifted it to check what broke. Seemed all normal that night except for the leak

 

yeah, smoke out the tailpipe, barely holding coolant, isn't good.

Sorry to hear. Good luck

 

Quick update: it is nothing like what the counter jockie said. Zero smoke. Zero oil in coolant or vice versa

 

"it was pumping out the exhaust lots of smoke"




Yeah, i'ts not that bad...

 

Gotta love when they try to squeeze money from ya...

 

if it's that bad fill the radator with water leave the cap off and turn the car on if it's got a bad head gasket it'll shoot it back out of the radiator like to the hood shooting out

 

Drain the oil, if it looks milky you got a blown head gasket.

 

 

Believe it or not, the motor will also over hear from the intake gasket also, my car also was in the garage for oh.... 2 plus years and in mechanics hands for several months not starting, does run, but installing parts here and there as we go on, long story short, installed some parts to it, and the intake gasket was taken off one day In order to install some parts to the motor, turns out several months later I forgot about it, but flash back that the intake was not properly seated right at all, and just a minor thing turned out to over heat the car after several miles or so, smoke threw the oil stick and just getting hot, can't figure out why??
New radiator, coolant, termastate, water pump, lower and upper hoses, even the Tpi unit where the water gets in threw and sometimes get clogged after several years, even got a burp part that allows tbr coolant to burp after all of these changes and still get hot and bogs out until after sitting for a few hours, head gaskets are fine... But yea turned out it was the intake gasket, still a job no question to get to it, because our motors are not of the norm, everything has to be removed to get to it,
Hope this helps!